Loss for Christ's Sake

Last week as Ezra's eye teeth struggled to pop through, I forgot this:

We lose not for our sake and really not even for the sake of our children, but for the sake of Christ. We live to Christ and we die to Christ. It is for his sake that we give our lives to the service of child-rearing.

[http://cbmw.org/women/motherhood/a-risky-life/]